I’m Singaporean. She is very kind to say that in Singapore, there is competition among people working in the same team. I would elaborate that there’s not just competition, there’s often backstabbing.
Malaysians used to be able to obtain Singapore PR easily, they were euphemistically termed “traditional sources” of migrants. The first generation of Singaporean leaders were mainly from Malaysia. Many Singaporeans still have family ties to Malaysia.
They used to be the same country, so of course historically they share a similar history. However, in recent years with the difference in wages and Malaysians coming to take advantage of the stronger SGD, along with territorial disputes between both militaries, the Singapore government would rather take PR's from people wanting to leave from a wealthier background from China, India or Europe. The reason why is because the similarities in culture and being so close geographically, Malaysians that migrate are less likely to feel loyalty towards the country than a wealthy Chinese or Indian family that would easily trade their nationalities for Singapore citizenship.
the one time i went to work with chinese colleagues for a few months, i totally enjoyed it. the atmosphere was friendly and supportive, even though we worked pretty damn hard and pushed each other hard too, but it was a supportive atmosphere. here in Singapore, i can almost sense the glee in my colleagues when i am criticised and also their jealousy when i get praised. lunch conversations with my chinese colleagues we talk about our families, what we did on the weekend, interesting places to go. you know what my singapore colleauges often talk about? what car they bought, new watch, what condo they are eyeing to buy, the salaries that competitor companies are paying.
For Malaysians..... it's very -very easy to get PR because of our similarities, i worked in SG for few years, in my first year was granted PR but decided to move back to Penang Malaysia, since my family was there. Yes 100% true Singapore is the safest country" no doubt".
She is a smart lady , she married a Malaysian chinese husband and live in Singapore , so her husband could rent out his house in Malaysia and collect rental every months , and stay in Singapore a safe city.😇😇😇😇😇
Hey Max, I found you through Elena as I know her and her story. Moreover, I'm a RU-vidr and digital nomad but not in Singapore, because I love doing interviews and I have landed in Singapore during my travels, but currenly, I'm loving the Algarves in Portugal. Great editing Max, really enjoyed it and if you travel to Europe, happy to record together!
Singapore is a normal country. It is great because it is normal. Normal people want safety, convenience, stability, good governance. Singapore does not need to be special like the US, Russia, or China. I prefer that it remains humble in its aspirations and great in helping others in need regardless of their social status. This to me is the Singapore I know and love.
She’s spot on about the competitiveness amongst the peers in Singapore. I think it’s partly to do with the environment and system Singaporeans grow up in. For example, only a very small number of Singaporean students get to go into the top local universities and they’re all graded on a bell curve - which means, the young were forced to outdo each other. It’s sad.
Dear Elena! A born local Chinese, welcome to Singapore. U done it & Singaporean thank u for contribution in total defence. 20 yrs later your son will serve national service. We shared a common bond, born local men & nothing else. By the way so was my cousin wife. She came from Taiwan & her son finished his NS 4 yrs ago. In the middle of world lock down.
Her comment on SG work culture vs China’s is rather spot on in many cases. Team work should be team work without having internal team “competition” as well. Eg. is having many “Indian chiefs” within a team.
@@spadypoonpeepee7982 There are about 1 million Malaysians ( many 🇲🇾 Chinese ) working here and more if their families ( long term pass ) are included. Most do not qualify and would not get one even if apply relentlessly. Certain professions ( like nurses / IT ) would be much easier.
A request max , Please interview professionals who have got PR with skilled jobs and not via marriage ( perfectly legitimate but not everybody is in that situation) and that too with recent history and middle level professionals not the top 1% or not the wealthy Ex pats
15K!!?? That's definitely a very different level of living compared to a typical local. If you don't rent private housing, take public transport, eat local hawker food for most meals, go to local schools, a family of three definitely don't need 15K to live comfortably in Singapore. It's not about being economical, but rather knowing where and what gives you better value for your money.
I kinda agreed on the part that she mentioned about teamwork and competition between Shanghai vs Singapore. And definitely on the portion about renting.
I lived in spore for 3 years and i gave up my PR since i decided to move to New Zealand 🇳🇿, i’m not a city person, if i was, i would definitely choose to live in Singapore, the best city state in the world, safe, strategic location with direct flights to every continent in the world, tons of events throughout the year, well designed public transport
It isn't even the motto of the Israeli naval special forces, but the nice interviewee lady is in sales so I'm sure she's not very interested in that kind of thing.
Can you do an interview with pr’s who after getting their permanent resident status , quit their jobs and become a grab or foodpanda rider because they wanna be self employed
at 10:52 that's actually a motto from British Special Air Service...my family & friends have served in it. The Israeli motto is something about Bats in the night.
What she said about the code and ethics of many real estate agents are true . Maybe because it’s low entry requirements mades it’s very easy for “all walks of life” to get into this industry and it’s not helping and worst as some foreigners turned PR or citizens bring their bad faith and practices into this new country . I encountered this very bad experience lately and decided not only filing an complaint to CEA but to sue her in court for negligence of her duty as an real estate agent … my massage; this is Singapore NOT your usual Asia very big population and self proclaimed super power respect our way of life and our law and order otherwise you should renounce your citizenship and return to your motherland !
Stop blaming others. That's how your own country's culture is, the local Chinese agents are the absolute worst. And the local landlords are the most shameless of them all SG the first world country with third world people
How times have changed. Once upon a time, it was easy to get PR. Apply, wait a few weeks, approval. Now, it's a stressful affair. As a former PR, I do not miss this at all. More power to you.
Singapore is super expensive when expats and foreigners are staying in high end condo rentals in city and city-fringe locations, kids go to international schools and eat out in restaurants. It's a choice.
Foreigners have to fit into rental quotas on hdb, limited. Hence the private condo. Their kids are not allowed into public schools. Hence the private school.
Think I saw on ST that a construction worker who came to Singapore and work and volunteered himself to a boss and citizen. Perhaps Max can interview him.
Wow, 15K! I don't even have 5K revenue for myself. But then again I don't need to pay rental only cover my own operating expenses (food, power, telco, transport, travel, small luxuries).
To me, I don't think Singaporean are all law abiding citizens because the moment they cross over to Malaysia, they start to flout all the rules and regulations because they have these mindset of being wealthy and superoir.
I enjoy your interviews with people living in Singapore, it is a good reminder of how good we have it here. But it is suspicious when details don't line up. "Who Dare Wins" with correct visual reference to the British SAS insignia, but Elena says Israeli Navy Seals. They are called Shayetet 13 and they don't even have a remotely similar motto.
I'm a Singaporean. I think her greatest mistake to marry a Malaysian hoping to get her PR fast. She must understand that Malaysia & Singapore is a difference country. If she had married a Singaporean the result will be difference. She may be offered a citizenship.
Obviously this is about her own experience… but some correction about PR requirements - lots of people with various education and income levels get PR and citizenship, including people with barely high school certificates, cooks at hawker centers etc. They are looking at commitment and if u’re here to stay or gonna hop away. No such thing as a masters’ degree being a requirement, or super high salaries. There are even Bangladeshi and Indian workers who worked hard, pick up courses and upgrade themselves to a supervisor at construction and eventually get citizenship.
Max I think u need to make one separate video explaining about every rule expat and PR have to follow in Singapore. Like PR can buy resell- HDB ( and never BTO) only in 5 years after obtaining the status or that expats can’t go to local school ( unless they got a lucky draw and yet how much it costs for them in comparison with locals ) , conditions of being able to work in SG if you come with the spouse etc etc etc . I think it will help to reduce a big number of poisonous comments which show that lots of local do not know much about what true life of expats is , government makes it challenging enough for expats here, and it’s ok . I just want people know and you can make them know)
@@iloveevil86 all foreigners are not here , you can be sure about it . Government sets quite a hight benchmark for foreigners to be able to obtain work visa here. In other words government did selection of those who deserve to be here and who will benefit SG economy. By the way , what did expats do to your life so that you are so much full of hatred ? And how will your life change to better if they all leave ?
🇸🇬 used to offer PR easily to Filipino/ Indians /China people / others . But many these earlier batches betrayed 🇸🇬 by sending their children off overseas to escape national service / used 🇸🇬 passport as a jumping board / PR sold off their very profitable flats (a privilege) and packed home .
Who Dares Wins is SAS ,no,? Anyway , sorry the estate agents are playing punk n not transparent, most Singapore real estate agents don't do this, ..we do have other properties agents from non Singapore Nationallity
The smartest pr will buy a house in Singapore instead of renting.if you are earning 15k dual income why you want to rent? Easiest way to get pr in Singapore is to be someone who is a health care worker like staff nurse, doctor, pharmacist.your type of jobs or things you do will increase your chances to get pr in Singapore. It's more like is your occupation in demand anot for Singapore or how rich you are .
Oh if you don't already know, if you put "singapore" and "malaysia" in one sentence, especially if the video leans towards singapore, even if it is objective, you will get alot of malaysian commentors.
@@ThisnametaKenny Not really. Most SF don't do mottos, the only 2 official ones I know are the SAS and the GIGN (Commitment for Life). Some do catchphrases though but those are not mottos. The SEAL's is "The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday". The Mossad uses a line from the Bible, Proverbs 11:14. They try not to copy each other, especially since the SF community cross trains a lot, anyone that copies someone else would end up looking like a poser and no one who works in SF likes to have their pride poked like that. Israel was being an oddity when it outright copied the SAS for their Sayaret unit.
The government in Singapore makes you do performative things like volunteering to get PR. It's all a show and people do it just for the PR and then they stop.
I do not believe that you need to spend S$ 15K per month, even if you are a PR , needing to rent an apartment, and to pay for the children education. I had neighbours in my condo and they are PR too probaby earning around S$ 10 to 12 K per month. They rent the apartment and they send their daughter to International school too ????
Why are foreigners/PR so keen to be PR ? Aren’t they here only for the jobs , Do they truly love Singapore ? Do they mind their sons doing National Service ? Or that the lifestyle in Singapore is more comfortable than back home ? Really good to know the real reason
Singapore does not allow dual citizenship so if you did become a citizen, you'll have to dump your old passport and sometimes that can be a problem in the originating country since they don't have IC, a passport or driver's licence is their ID and you end up being unable to do a lot of things. It's not obvious to Singaporeans but the IC is a very unique item for Singapore, not many other countries have something similar.
Oh my I wouldn't open that can of worms. I've spoke to Russians here and they are super confused about what is going on. From what I understand, by the mid of last year, some people were still sending their grandkids from Russia to Ukraine saying it was safe 😮
Not necessarily all Ukrainian speaks Russian , almost half of the population speaks their own language, unless some of them are from the eastern part of Ukraine .
@@CrossbredmiMiyang they all speak Russian or at least understand it unless they're from like really west near Poland. (Like Lviv). It's a legacy from the Soviet Period where Russian was pretty much forced onto the SSRs and the internal non Russian Ethnic republics. In the still very much Russian dominated Belarus, hardly anyone speaks Belarusian.
@@shawntan2360Belarusian is more similar to Russian than Mandarin to the native languages of most Singaporeans (Hokkien, Teochew, Cantonese, Hainanese)
@@chaotiongsai oh I'm aware of that. Maybe you could consider it to be some dialect. But what I was trying to make a point of was that barely anyone uses Belarusian day to day today. Ukraine was similar until the fall of the USSR and subsequent (and accelerated) de-russification policies (which have gone a bit over top) you could say that that was one of the causes (and the pretext) of the 2014 Donbass invasion
Sad to say you are right . Because it set a very low entry requirement and allows any Tom D or Harry to join this industry and lately the problems submerged even further, as many foreigners turned PR Or citizens whom some marry to the locals here , they continue to behave like how they behave originally and they still think they’re right and their aggression against all local agents becomes a problem and a threat . I myself encounter such agent and have gather all hard evidence and already log an complaint to CEA and law suit is on its way soon . I’ll made sure these pair take their lesson hard for not terrorizing our country and or law & order… it’s Singapore not self proclaimed super power despite we share some bloodline unfortunately.
It's also the motto of the Israeli Sayaret unit which was a copy of the SAS. It's an oddity for sure because most SF don't like to be seen as a copy of another unit.
Ukranains no matter where the go, they always say it is the best country in THE WORLD, poor them having such a low standard of homeland to compare their experince to.
She dint say what she was doing when she meet her husband and15k per month is what she is paying for family of 3? like basically she dint explain much...this entire vid is she praising the country she currently living in...
There are a lot neutralized citizens who dont know english...so having a degree is not impt. Just volunteer with your RC couple of years, then ask your mp write a commendation letter ...this carry a lot weight
